"Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability."

-- Horace

#Ability Quotes #Equal Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.”

Source : Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone
“It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.”
“That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; ...”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.132, Harvard University Press
“When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.”

Source : Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
“Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .”
“There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.”
“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

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